*A jutul is a type of troll, known for their stupidity. Not to be confused with jötunn/jǫtunn/jotunn/jotun, a being that can possess great wisdom.

**"As thick as seven could count" is an archaic Norwegian expression that I'm having a hard time translating. I have no idea what it means.

***While "tøs" once was a neutral description of a girl/young woman, today it is mostly used to describe a slutty girl. No idea why the meaning of the word has changed. The word is still written the same way, though, so I've translated it into "slut" anyway.

****A nautefjøs is a kind of barn used for housing livestock, in this particular case cattle. Due to the country's long farming tradition, Norwegian has an extensive vocabulary when it comes to anything farming-related. This is a compound word, where "naut" means moron (it's also another word for cow), and "fjøs" means byre.

Låve = Granary
Løe = Barn
Fjøs (also fjos or flor) = byre (Yes, I am aware that this is an archaic term, but "byre" is far more spesific than "barn".)

Oh, I didn't know you were going to remake the whole thing, but good thing you did, now the translation is much more solid.

Couple of thing though :
1. According to the album inlay : "høgeloftsvoll = svalegangen på gamle hus", so I think it's closer to what I wrote. Maybe I should've wrote theater or balcony instead.

2. Jötunns is synonymous with Jutul, so for most laymen readers, it would be equally unclear. Therefore, it would be nice to add some extra description in the comments, and leaving it as Jutul is also fine imo - as it is a name.

3. I think "tuss" actually means dwarf or gnome. As in the song by Lumsk based on Alvíssmál, Allvis says "eg er av tusseætt" - I am of dwarf/gnome family.

1. I just assumed that it was a compound word. Thanks! It means "gallery", by the way

2. That's true, I should've thought about that. I'll change it.

3. Actually (and I feel stupid for not remembering), tusse is another name on a hulder, which is a forest creature that steals human infants to replace them with her own children. The hulders are known for their beauty, but apparently the children are really ugly. So if someone's of 'tusseætt', he or she is probably a replaced children, which is a really bad thing.

Very interesting and informative, thank you.
As for Jutul, I've read somewhere that it's actually synonymous with jotunn and jætte. The article said that it differs from other trolls in that it's gigantic and often comes with tusks or being a cyclops. If it's not the case, could you please share your source with me so I could further inquire on the subject - I'm a "sucker" for Northern myths .
I didn't know tuss meant huldra. How would you translate tusseætt then? I've seen it translated to gnome by another Norwegian.

I don't have a particular source, I just know from reading Norse mythology books, but I've done some research. I think that jutul is an Eastern Norwegian dialect word for jotun, so you're probably right on that one. Also, you've written jætte, which is the danish word for jotun The system is complicated, though - a jotne is basically a troll, but there are different kinds of trolls. Turse, rimturse, jutul, jøtul og gyger (female troll) are all synonyms for jotun, but they're not the same as for example jötunn, which is a ''smart'' troll. It's confusing. As for their apperance: they tend to be big and sometimes have several heads.
Tusseætt won't translate directly, but I would probably translate it into 'of hulder descent' or something like that. Gnome is a specie of underground people, like the hulder, but they're not the same.

I also want to add some information about the hulder that you might find interesting. I mentioned that the hulder children were really ugly, right? Well, it was their way to explain why a child was deformed or different in any other way. Children with cleft lips or Down's Syndrome would often be explained as being hulder children because there was no other explanation to be given. There was a lot of superstition back then.

That's an interesting question, which I unfortunately don't know the answer to. Many of the children suffered from deficieny diseases or rickets, so my guess is that some the anomalies weren't discovered at first sight. And even if they were, people were convinced that the hulder must have managed to replace the child somehow. Like I said, there wasn't any science to hold on to, so most people made up an explanation.
Oh, and it was a tradition to put a pair of silver scissors, a silver cross or a Bible in the bottom of the crib to keep the hulder away. Having a child like that was a heavy burden, so the parents tried to get rid of it without killing it, mostly by tormenting it. They seemed to believe that the child's screaming would make the hulder come and pick up her child and return the human.

I know. Norway's responsible for a lot of cruelty, like religious persecution and execution of witches (the last known witch to be executed was killed in 1695!). Anomalies caused mass hysteria and lynching, and that was it. People seldom tried to act rational and seemed to be more fond of hasty decisions.